Read Think Pray is a daily reflection on the Revised Common Lectionary Readings for the previous Sunday. The idea is simply to get you - reading, thinking and praying about the scriptures you heard at your Sunday Service.

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Read Acts 17:22-31

Read Acts 17:22-31

22 Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus
and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. 23 For
as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship,
I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What
therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. 24 The
God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and
earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, 25 nor is
he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives
to all mortals life and breath and all things. 26 From one
ancestori
he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of
their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, 27 so
that they would search for Godj and perhaps grope for him and find
him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us. 28 For ‘In
him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have
said,

‘For we too are his offspring.’

29 Since we are God’s offspring, we ought
not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed
by the art and imagination of mortals. 30 While God has
overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere
to repent, 31 because he has fixed a day on which he will have
the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this
he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

Think

Paul takes any and every
opportunity to talk about God and what he has done through Jesus.As he speaks to the crowd he works hard to
find a common interest and engage them in conversation.

Pray

Sometimes I struggle to tell
other people about you - help me to find the right opportunities and words.